Tuesday, April 15, 2008

TCU Nietzsche symposium kicks off this Thursday (April 17)

Here's what most people know about Nietzsche: he's the guy who said, "God is dead." Want to know more? Here's your chance.

By Pegasus News wire

Contrary to popular belief, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche never actually said (or wrote) "God is dead."

[But that's only because Herr Nietzsche was German, and so what he actually said (and wrote) was "Gott ist tot."]

There's more, much more, to Friedrich Nietzsche and his philosophy, as evidenced by Texas Christian University's forthcoming symposium titled “Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life,” which kicks off this Thursday (April 17) and runs through Saturday (April 19) on the TCU campus.

Philosophers from all over will be converging on campus, which is sure to raise the beards-per-capita quotient enormously. The keynote will be delivered by Simon Blackburn of Cambridge University on Thursday, April 17 at 11 a.m. in the Ed Landreth Auditorium.

A detailed agenda can be found by going here and then clicking on the Nietzsche sketch - but note that it's a big .pdf file and will take a while to load.

Other internationally renowned professors of philosophy, TCU faculty/students/staff and members of the community are scheduled to attend, including: Ruth Abbey, University of Notre Dame; Christa Davis Acampora, Hunter College, CUNY; Jessica Berry, Georgia State University; Maudemarie Clark, Colgate University; Daniel Conway, Texas A & M University; Kathleen Higgins, The University of Texas at Austin; Clancy Martin, The University of Missouri-Kansas City; Thomas Miles, Boston College; Richard Schacht, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David Sherman, The University of Montana; and Alan White, Williams College.

For further details, contact Dr. Blake Hestir, TCU associate professor of philosophy, at b.hestir@tcu.edu.

posted by JM

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Rick Yost Verified

Some of us call him 'Papa'. His ability to say the truth as he saw it was moving.

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